Photo: Red Hill.
Seagate ST3290A
The 260MB Seagate ST3290A was as typical a Seagate drive from this period as any: not particularly fast, quite reliable, generally fuss-free, and excellent value for money.
The ST3290A looked almost exactly the same as a Medalist 545xe, or for that matter much the same as all the other mainstream Seagate IDE drives made in the early to mid 1990s.
Notice the model number: like all Seagate drives until about 1995, it is based on the unformatted capacity.
| Performance | 0.54 | Reliability | AA2 |
| Data rate | 21.1 Mbit/sec | Spin rate | 3811 RPM |
| Seek time | 16ms | Buffer | 64k |
| Platter capacity | 130MB | Interface | IDE |
| Actuator | Stepper | Form | 3½" 1/3 height> |
| ST3290A | 260.1MB | 4 thin-film heads | *** |